Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:29:27 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portmanager modifying bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <200903101029.27812.fjwcash@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49B69DC0.7030205@telenix.org> References: <49B41108.8060105@telenix.org> <49B5EA87.1080103@FreeBSD.org> <49B69DC0.7030205@telenix.org>
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On March 10, 2009 10:05 am Chuck Robey wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> Just before sending my mail, I took a look at the cvs log, last entry > >> is from more than 6 months ago, unless something is somehow fubared > >> with my archive. If it sits unchanged for so long, I interpreted that > >> as being dead, I wasn't trying to be insulting, maybe I made an > >> incorrect assumption. > > > > The last change to portmaster (minor bug fixes and one minor new > > feature) was just shy of 6 months after the previous change, but I > > assure you that it's very much alive. :) Just because an existing > > feature set is more or less mature doesn't mean that the project is > > dead. > > Doug, we were speaking of portmanager, not portmaster (about which I'm > utterly innocent). Being thjat this is ports, not -chat, I think we > shouldn't just launch out at random (although I'd enjoy that personally.) > If you want to continue this in any direction other than portmanager, > maybe you could either move this to freebsd-chat, or make it private (no > list in the CC:?) _______________________________________________ I believe he was just trying to make the point that just because there hasn't been any patches posted in 6 months, doesn't mean a project is dead. Not trying to steer the conversation over to portmaster. -- Freddie fjwcash@gmail.com
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